Quoting from Borsenkow Andrej's mail on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:57:59AM +0400:
This does not compile because of strange character in fetchmail.h
-andrej
--- fetchmail-5.9.11/fetchmail.h.orig Mon Apr 1 11:55:07 2002
+++ fetchmail-5.9.11/fetchmail.h Tue Apr 2 09:54:08 2002
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@
/* from /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h */
#if !defined __GNUC__ || __GNUC__ < 2
-# define __attribute__(xyz)> /* Ignore. */
+# define __attribute__(xyz) /* Ignore. */
#endif
/* error.c: Error reporting */
My mistake: I had copy-pasted it from the header file and the tab
character must have got mangled.
Sunil Shetye.